No matter how routine an operation is, the patients never seem to be.
“Explain! Perhaps you’d like to explain it to me, too. I’m not used to having my civil liberties taken away like this. In America, nobody would dream of telling you where you can or can’t go.” And over thirty million Americans died during the Pandemic as a result of that sort of thinking, he thought.”
― Doomsday Book
― Doomsday Book
“No matter what our intentions, everything we say and do in the pursuit of justice will one day be outdated, ineffective, and yes, probably wrong. That is the way progress works. What we do now is important and helpful so long as what we do now is what is needed now.”
― So You Want to Talk About Race
― So You Want to Talk About Race
“Feminism is really just the long slow realization that the things you love hate you.”
― Shrill: Notes from a Loud Woman
― Shrill: Notes from a Loud Woman
“Evil comes from a failure to think. It defies thought for as soon as thought tries to engage itself with evil and examine the premises and principles from which it originates, it is frustrated because it finds nothing there. That is the banality of evil.”
― Eichmann in Jerusalem: A Report on the Banality of Evil
― Eichmann in Jerusalem: A Report on the Banality of Evil
“Avoid pronouncing the phrases everyone else does. Think up your own way of speaking, even if only to convey that thing you think everyone is saying. Make an effort to separate yourself from the internet. Read books.”
― On Tyranny: The Book to Help You Understand Why Democracy Is Failing
― On Tyranny: The Book to Help You Understand Why Democracy Is Failing
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